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Is Stenting Safe?

You may have heard about the new stents used to keep arteries open, that are coated with medication. They're called drug-eluting stents. The first were introduced in 2003, and in just three years they've more or less become the standard.

Coated with what? A blood-thinning medication or maybe even a cholesterol-lowering statin? Good guess, but it turns out the medication is there to help prevent restenosis, which is the renarrowing of an artery prompted by scarring and inflammation that may occur when stents are inserted.

That's right: The drug treats a problem caused by the stenting procedure.

Previous to the medicated stent era, the American College of Cardiology estimated that renarrowing occurred in about 30 percent of patients who received stents. And in most restenosis cases, an additional angioplasty or even bypass surgery is required.

Unfortunately, drug-coated stents are not quite trouble-free. According to presentations made at the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain (as reported in a recent issue of Forbes), clinical trials sponsored by stent manufacturers show that drug-eluting stents sometimes cause blood clots. Which is not exactly what you're looking for in a treatment for a narrowed artery.

This problem may only occur in about six cases per every thousand, but it's enough of a concern that cardiologists are resorting to blood-thinning drugs more then they used to with non-medicated stents. One doctor told Forbes that he prescribes Plavix (a blood thinner) for patients who receive drug-eluting stents. He adds that his stent patients may need to use Plavix for up to three years, and in some cases for the rest of their lives.

Studies have shown that folate, combined with other B vitamins, may be effective in preventing restenosis.

As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 533 patients who had undergone coronary angioplasty were divided into two groups. Half received a supplement of folic acid, vitamin B6 and B12, while the other half received a placebo. Six months later, the researchers found that folate treatment not only slowed the development of plaque build up in the arteries, but in some cases also prevented it from occurring.

For some patients, chelation therapy provides a safe and considerably less expensive alternative to stent angioplasty. Chelation contains vitamins, minerals, and a synthetic amino acid called ethylene diamine tetracetic acid (EDTA) that binds with calcium deposits in the arteries and eliminates them from the body.

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A 1991 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, 394 subjects were given nose drops that contained a cold virus. It turned out the amount of stress they were feeling at the time of exposure was directly related to whether they came down with a cold or not.

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Brain Tumors in Kids May Be Less Likely if Moms Took Multivitamins Before and During Pregnancy
By Miranda Hitti

Sept. 22, 2006 -- Women who take multivitamins before and during pregnancy may be less likely to have children who develop brain tumors by age 5 years.

But the findings aren't rock solid and need more study, write Greta Bunin, PhD, and colleagues in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.

Bunin is on staff at Children's Hospital Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Before you read about the study, know this: Brain tumors are rare in children, and doctors can't always tell why they occur.

Bunin's team doesn't promise that prenatal vitamins will prevent kids' brain tumors. The researchers also aren't blaming kids' brain tumors on women who don't take multivitamins.

About the Study

Bunin and colleagues focused on 315 children aged 0-5 years with a type of brain tumor called medulloblastoma.

The researchers interviewed the kids' moms about their diet and vitamin use in the year before pregnancy and during pregnancy.

For comparison, they also interviewed the mothers of 315 children without brain tumors.

All of the kids lived in the U.S. or Canada.

The interviews were conducted by telephone and lasted nearly an hour, on average.

The researchers took factors including the mother's smoking, breastfeeding, BMI (body mass index), and age into account.

The study was observational. The women weren't assigned to take, or not take, any vitamins. So vitamins weren't directly tested for preventing kids' brain tumors.

Study's Findings

The mothers who reported taking multivitamins close to the time of conception were 30% less likely to have a child diagnosed with a brain tumor before the child's 6th birthday, the study shows.

The researchers say those findings were weaker than their previous study. They also note that the women may not have accurately recalled their vitamin use.

The study's finding is "of only borderline significance," the researchers write. That means that the results could possibly be due to chance, based on statistics.

But since their previous work also found a possible (and stronger) link between moms' multivitamin use and lower risk of kids' brain tumors, Bunin's team says the findings are "unlikely" to be due to chance.

The study doesn't distinguish between multivitamins and prenatal vitamins. The researchers suggest making future studies more specific about what multivitamins were used.

SOURCES: Bunin, G. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, September 2006; vol 15: pp 1660-1667. News release, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

As the summer sun wanes in many parts of the world health problems begin to emerge or at the least start to silently take hold.

Every fall I warn you about the vital, lifesaving importance and the necessity of getting enough vitamin D. Winter is the time of the year that most folks (except skiers and snowboarders) run the greatest risk of plummeting into a bone-brittling, immunity-compromising, heart disease making, increasing cancer-risk deficiency of vitamin D.

The sun carries the ability to give you the vitamin D needed and specifically the ultraviolet rays, so falsely maligned by the medical mainstream today. Of course that malignment comes from the sun screen industry, which also happens to manufacture most of our prescription and OTC drugs.

In the cold weather, most folks stay huddled up inside, away from the life-giving rays of our closest star (but they wouldn't if they knew how much harm they were doing themselves). Sun bathing for a short period of time each day is recommended for your health but most especially the over sixty-five years of age population, who is most susceptible to diseases created from not getting sufficient sunlight even in the summer.

I've advocated this for several years now and finally, in the last year and a half or so, some in the mainstream medical world have grudgingly acknowledged not only the crucial importance of vitamin D, but also the vital role that sunlight exposure plays in fortifying your body with this lifesaving vitamin. Dr. Garland includes sunlight and fresh air in his cancer and major illness protocols and for a good reason. Some things aren't as good supplemented as natural and Vitamin D is one of those!

Sunshine is a necessity of life if you wish to stay healthy. No, you don't have to lie on the beach for hours; in fact I don't recommend that course of sun bathing as with everything else in life, "Too much of a good thing is bad." Fifteen to twenty minutes a day is sufficient!

Low levels of Vitamin D - lack of sunshine - also are proven to play a role in heart failure.

Researchers at the University of Bonn, Germany, collected fasting blood samples from 54 congestive heart failure (CHF) patients over a period of five months. They compared their samples to similar samples taken from a group of 34 healthy subjects that did not have CHF.

Upon analyzing the samples the shocking truth was that the CHF patients had vitamin D levels significantly lower than the healthy group. The CHF group had vitamin D levels that were only half that of the average level found in the healthy group. Those with the lowest vitamin D levels had the most severe cases of CHF.

Another study at the University of California, San Francisco, showed how sufficient levels of vitamin D may cut the risk of heart disease in older women by as much as 33%, contributed to the fact that vitamin D helps to prevent the buildup of calcium deposits in the arteries.

Lacking in vitamin D is the number one reason for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) experienced in the winter months. SAD is exhibited by depression, lack of will to do anything and lethargy. If it’s too cold to walk or sit outside open a drape and sit in front of a window with the sun streaming in and read a good book for fifteen or twenty minutes morning and afternoon! Not as effective as being directly in the suns rays but it will help to offset SAD.

Local Governments Get Serious About the Environment
October 1, 2006

In the absence of serious national action, state and local governments and the private sector are taking the initiative in confronting the interlocked problems of global warming and energy conservation.

The most dramatic example is the legislation California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed last week mandating reductions in the state's emissions of the gases associated with global warming. But city governments and the private sector are also formulating some of the most innovative responses to a problem the federal government still refuses to confront head-on.

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LENA'S COMMENT: I can only hope this truly will be followed through with and not just another election year campaign rhetoric!